The attention of the Customary Government of IPOB has been drawn to an online report (Vanguard) that God created Nigeria.The report was credited to a message delivered by President Buhari in the occasion of Eid Kabir hosted by Aisha Buhari to mark Sallah celebration.The message from Mr President reads ‘ I am one of those who is extremely confident that our nation will remain united because i am convinced that God’s plans and purpose for Nigeria is that we would be the preeminent black nation in the world.The President said: the country would continue to show greatness in culture,in technology and in commerce which he stated was God’s investment in the black race.We must focus out time,our energies and our resources on being that great nation that God has called us to be’ the message concluded.
CG-IPOB is worried that neither President Buhari nor the Nigerian elites have learnt any lesson from the recent history. To associate the creation of Nigeria with God is trying to question the existence of our Redeemer .Is President Buhari trying to rewrite history that Lord Lugguard and Miss Flora were anointed by God the very day they created Nigeria? It is no longer in dispute that Nigeria is a failed state and God would never have hand in failures.
CG-IPOB could not believe that in a period when even the Northern Youths have come to terms that regions should be allowed to determine their economic, political and cultural aspirations, that few people inside Aso Rock would still be fantasizing on a dream one Nigeria. A country that could not provide ordinary medical assistance to number one citizen! God’s project indeed! A Country that has no reliable data for her citizenry! God’s project indeed.A Country that does not care and or perhaps do not have any concrete plan for millions of her jobless labour force! That Nigeria is still pretending to be one today is by the grace of God.God is about to set His Children free from Lord Lugguard creation called Nigeria.
CG-IPOB wants to reassure Biafrans that God can never be part of a fraudulent creation.God has set in motion action plans to restore Biafra without shedding innocent bloods .
ABUJA – PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari Sunday said that the country should not spend her resources and energy debating disintegration. The President also said that the noises in some quarters about the division of the country was part of the rebirth going on, adding that God had designed that the country will be together.
President Buhari spoke Sunday in his address on the occasion of the Eid- Kabir hosted by his wife Aisha Buhari as part of the Sallah festivities said what was required by every citizen was sacrifice so as to take the nation to the destiny designed by God. The President represented by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo at the gathering at the Old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the nation God had in mind while bringing every ethnic nationalities together was a diverse nation. Although President Buhari was unable to be present at the occasion because he was celebrating Sallah at his home town Daura having been away from his country home for over a year said he held the belief that Nigeria will remain together.
According to him, “The significance of this celebration is the willingness of Abraham to make the great sacrifice of possibly the dearest thing to him, his son Isaac. “Obviously, anyone who knows anything at all about the kinds of things that…..it is a willingness to make a great sacrifice. And Abraham was able to make that sacrifice. “And he made it in order to be able to fulfill his own destiny and the destiny of his people. “The message today is that our nation’s elites, Muslims, Christians and all ethnicities must recognize that we also must make sacrifices, the sacrifices that are necessary to attain the destiny that God has brought unto our people. “I am one of those who is extremely confident that our nation will remain united because I am convinced that God’s plans and purpose for Nigeria is that we would be the preeminent black nation in the world.” Continuing, the President said the country would continue to show forth in culture, in technology and in commerce which he stated was God’s investment in the black race. He said, “This is why today for every … four or five blacks, some people say one must be a Nigerian. That is not a mean attainment at all. “That nation that God has in mind is a diverse nation. Diverse in resources, in ideas, in opinions. “The kind of nation that we have, where there is an argument about something everywhere, before you get tired of that lone argument, another one arise and before you finish with that one there is yet another one. “This is the type of country that God has ordained where we have diversity of opinions, diversity of ideas. People saying their own things here and there. “But, He has also planned that this country will remain together, and that we will be a nation that is gifted just as we have the oil, the gas, and the most arable lands than most continents. “This is a country that has all of what other countries will travel and spend money looking for the sort of resources that we have.
All of the tourism resources that we have people will travel everywhere looking for it. “It is a nation of men and women so creative and prosperous. That we will feed the entire continent and create opportunities for the world. All the different ethnic groups are important in that arrangement. “On every ethnicity, incredible minds, brilliant and creative people doing all manner of things. “Our energies and resources shouldn’t be spent again on debate about division. Our manifest destiny is to be a great nation, not to be a nation where we are talking about division. “We must focus out time, our energies and our resources on being that great nation that God has called us to be. “I think we have started building that country already. “Despite all the noise that we hear, all that noise is part of the building. Everybody knows that you cannot have birth without noise. No woman delivers a baby without some noise and without some pains. “What we are hearing today are the noises and the pains of that great nation that God is about to give birth to.” Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari thanked Nigerians for the prayers offered for her husband’s speedy recovery while he was bedridden in a United Kingdom (UK) hospital. Represented by the Minister of Interior, Lt Gen Abdulrahman Dambazzau, she urged Nigerians to support the administration’s effort to sustain the peace and development in the country. She said, “Without development there will be no peace and without peace there will be no development.” Messages from other speakers including the representative of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) , Rev Israel Akanji, and Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, Okoi Obono- Obla centered on Nigeria’s unity.
The Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) has concluded plans to train 45 members of Oodua People Congress (OPC), Arewa Youths and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on ethnic harmony and how to entrench peace and unity in Nigeria.
This was disclosed by the Chairman, the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN),Mr. Allen Onyema who said that the trainers who specialise in conflict resolution would come from the United States of America (USA) to organize the training and after the training in Nigeria the beneficiaries would also be taken overseas for further training at FEHN’s expense.
He said that the objective of the training is to make the beneficiaries to eschew all those things that create division among ethnic nationalities and to see and help to build Nigeria as one, united entity and also help to galvanise their members to unite and campaign for one united Nigeria.
Onyema said that the Foundation was at the forefront in promoting peace and unity in Nigeria during the Niger Delta militancy, which contributed immensely in quenching the crisis in that part of the country.
Said Onyema, “we are training 45 youths from OPC, Arewa and IPOB. This is our effort to ensure that Nigeria remains one united country because we are better off living together and if any part of this country splits, it can never rise to any level compared to if all Nigerians are living together because this country is a great country, which we must work hard to sustain.”
“I think what most people are against is perceived injustice or imbalance but the most beautiful thing is that most people want one, big Nigeria than a fragmented Nigeria,” Onyema added.
Onyema said he hopes to see the end of the present crisis and said FEHN would do everything possible to end the various ethnic and tribal crisis and agitation in the country.
“If I tell myself there is no tension, it will be a lie. But we all must be positive about it. One thing I want to say to my fellow Nigerians is that conflict is part of life. Conflict can become a catalyst for positive change; it depends on the kind of approach or response you give to issues of conflict. If you give the right approach to issues of conflict it becomes a catalyst for positive change. However, if you give the wrong response to issues of conflict it becomes an avenue for catastrophe. So we should make the present conflict as catalyst for positive change,” Onyema said,
The FEHN Chairman, who is also the Chairman of Air Peace, said that the training of these youths would be part of his contribution to the quest for unity and ethnic harmony in Nigeria.
“Everybody must not be a political leader to contribute to the development of the country. Recently I wrote to the state security service and I told them to please give me permission to engage the Arewa Youths and IPOB. That I believe from my position of expertise in conflict management, that I could handle these people. I know that we can make them come together and embrace peace and that I what we are working on now, which I know we will realize to strengthen the unity of Nigeria,” he added.
Niger Delta militants have warned the Federal Government of the dangers the country would face, if the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is re-arrested by security agents.
The militants have also given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to release two members of IPOB, Chidiebere Onwudiwe and Bright Chimezie, who had been in detention, or expect attack from them, which could be in any form.
The militants, who are members of Niger Delta People Democratic Front (NDPDF), Concerned Militant Leaders (CML) and Rainbow Marabas (RM), gave the warning yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, after their crucial meeting.
Leaders of the groups, identified as General Iyoyo Playboy (NDPDF), General Ben (CML) and General Billy Anaeja, warned that if Kanu was re-arrested. they, would cause spontaneous attacks in major states in the country.
Also, the Niger Delta militants accused have Federal Government of playing politics with the lives of Nigerians, particularly people from South East and South-South geo-political zones.
A statement jointly issued by Iyoyo, Ben and Anaeja, through their tweet handle, flayed Federal Government for exhibiting hatred on the regions and individuals that expressed dissatisfaction with the All Progressives Congress (APC) style of administration.
They stated: “Federal Government cannot do it; but, if it tries to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of IPOB, it (FG) will regret the consequences. It will not believe what Nigeria will be thrown into.
” Federal Government has shown, through its moves to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu, that it does not value lives of Nigerians. Government wants to use attempt to re-arrest the IPOB Leader to escalate the crisis in the country.
“If government is serious, it should go ahead to arrest and wait for the result. We will back IPOB and give the group support in any form , even without them expecting it.
” We learnt that Federal Government has deployed more security to the South-South and South East geo-political because of Nnamdi Kanu. We dare them to go ahead and execute”, they warned.
The freedom fighters, who said they believed in the IPOB struggle, asked why Federal Government has remained silent over the activities of Northern youths against the Igbo and killings by Fulani herdsmen.
“What has Federal Government done about arresting Arewa youths, who hate the Igbo people with passion? What has Federal Government done with the Fulani herdsmen? How many of them have been arrested. Why is it silent, but is worried about a non-violent IPOB?
“We are reiterating our stand that we, the Niger Delta agitators, will resist any attempt to re-arrest the IPOB leader. We will resist FG and face the consequences. We are not begging those ruling not to go ahead and execute their plot”, the militants stressed.
The Federal Government recently initiated a move to re-arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu after he was granted bail by an Abuja Federal High Court. Meanwhile, Kanu in an exclusive interview with OKEY SAMPSON vowed to resist the arrest, insisting that Nigeria would burn if the Federal Government move to re-arrest him. He also spoke on other issues as they relate to the agitation.
You’ve toured the territory called Biafra since you came outof detention, what is your impressionabout what you have seen so far?
I’ve not completed the tour as a matter of fact. What I have seen so far is much enthusiasm. I have seen hope, the rekindling of hope and I have seen the burning desire for genuine change and the call for freedom which is exactly what we are doing and pursuing. There is no visiting dignitary, Head of State, political or religious leader that has been able to command the type of crowd that come out anywhere I visit or any town I go to. It has never been replicated or set as a precedence ever before. All the crowd that came out to welcome me were unprecedented; they came out in their historical numbers to witness the gospel that I preached. I don’t pay any of them. In fact, those people are the ones who are responsible for the running of IPOB and to make things happen. If I were to visit Lagos, it will be the same, If were to go to Kano, it will be the same thing. People will come out to see me because I preach the truth.
What has been the message all this while?
The message is that we IPOB members must remain resolute, disciplined and focused in all we are doing. We are not going to relent; the call for Biafra is our own interpretation of the principles of self-determination.That’s exactly what we are doing.
There are reports that you’ve reneged on your call for the boycott of the Anambra election. Could this be true?
I gave a speech in Aba, Abia State on Sunday and I made it absolutely clear that the boycott stays. We must boycott election in Anambra State.It is our civic responsibility to do so and that’s what we are going to do – total and absolute boycott, to let the whole world understand the strength of IPOB on the ground, in Anambra State.
You’ve gone round and your people are happy, but to some other people, you are over-stepping your bounds by flouting your bail conditions. What’s your reaction?
Are you talking about an illegal and unconstitutional bail condition?A bail condition designed to emasculate and basically render IPOB impotent? Does anyone seriously think I’m going to stand for IPOB to be rendered desolate? I can’t allow that to happen, I have not violated any laws unknown to the Nigerian judicial establishment. I have not committed any offence; no crime whatsoever. I said no crime. It is a violation of my right to ask me not to speak; to ask me not to be in a congregation of not more than 10 people, an absolute violation of articles enshrined in the constitution that I expect all and sundry to be rising up in defence of, not trying to justify the erosion of my fundamental human rights to speak, to be heard and to associate.
President Muhammadu Buhari was the one who broke the laws, he disobeyed the direct court order to release me unconditionally, not once, but twice. Honourable Shuaibu of Wuse Magistrate Court granted me bail, Buhari did not release me. Hon Justice Ademola granted me unconditional bail, Buhari and his cousin, Lawal Daura refused to honour that court order. They are the ones who should be detained for flagrant disobedience to court orders. I wantthe northern Arewa irredentists to call for the arrest of Buhari and Daura for flouting court order after court order, asking for my release. It smacks of hypocrisy and absolute cowardice that people who could not rise up in defence of the law when a court made a judicial pronouncement are now clamouring for my arrest because they believe it is easy to do so. Before now, Nnamdi Kanu is Igbo, he is a Biafran and can be arrested and nothing will happen but that would not be anymore, it would no longer happen.
Recently Arewa youths ordered the Igbo in the North to leave and nothing happened to them. The same Arewa youths are calling for your re-arrest and the Federal Government is making moves towards that. How do you reconcile this?
They are the ones in power. They believe that Fulani owns Nigeria and people must understand this. They conquered Hausa people and Hausa helped them to conquer other people, everybody is being terrified by the Fulani. Everybody is scared of them; but I’m Nnamdi Kanu, I’m not scared of them.
Are you not afraid that you could be re-arrested as the Federal Government has begun that move?
I don’t care! Quote me verbatim.If I’m re-arrested, this country will burn, I assure you. From where that oil money they depend on, they can no longer have access to it. I assure them that. This is not empty threat.We’re IPOB, we don’t abandon our own.
I know you have a son whom you have not set your eyes on since he was born, because of agitation. Don’t you feel for this boy; his future if something untoward happens to him?
I will sacrifice anything including my family to ensure that Biafra is restored. Any obstacle on my way will be obliterated. I’m not asking for Sokoto; I’m not asking for Kaduna, or Borno, I said this very land where my progenitors raised us; the land of our ancestors; of over 5, 000 years old, this land must be free, absolutely free, I assure you of that. The way we were before the whiteman came; had the white man not come, I would have no relationship with Sokoto, non whatsoever. The whiteman is not God, only God can create a nation, Lord Luguard is not God, only God can create a nation. I can tell you the day Nigeria was created even till the exact second and hour, but you can’t tell me when Biafra was created. It came as a result of organic interaction of cultures and value systems and traditions fussed into one to make Biafra a possibility, that is how nations emerge. By the collision of commonalities and value systems, not one idiot somewhere pontificating and dictating to us who should be in a country or not. Other African people can accept it, Nnamdi kanu cannot accept that. The whiteman is not God and cannot create a country for me. Have Nigerians sat round the table to say we have agreed that our name is Nigeria? We want to live together; perhaps, there will be a strong argument against what I’m proposing. Right now, what we are seeking to do is go back to where we were before 1914. From there, we can then begin to negotiate and discuss.
President Buhari in a recent broadcast said Nigeria’s unity is non negotiable and directed the security agencies to deal with any group that will work against this. What’s your reaction?
I don’t place any degree of importance to his speech and I willtell you why. First, I don’t believe he was the one that wrote the speech, I don’t believe he was the one that read it. If they prove me wrong, they should subscribe to a DNA test. That is number one; number two, if that speech was contemporary as they made us believe and not a generic one, how come there was no mention of the quit notice, how come he did not call for the people inciting Northern youths, Almajiri to genocide? Why is it that those calling for the re-arrest of Nnamdi Kanu cannot call for the arrestof the so called Arewa elders, not the youths because they came out to say that their elders knew what they were doing. They have the support of their elders, even the governors, that’s what they said. Why is nobody arresting them becausethey are in the army, they are in the air force, they are in the police, there is Fulani everywhere, they control everything so, when they speak, you are supposed to be shaking, but unfortunately, I’m not one of those that shake; instead when I speak they should be shaking because they know what is behind me. They are more intelligent than most people, I give them credit for that, they know what it means to arrest me, they understand the implications. Look at the first one they went through, Nigeria is at the brink of collapse. Second one, we kick it over the precipice I assure you. Life to me is meaningless, the only thing that gives me hope everyday is the idea that I may see Biafra. If I am not a dead man, what am I doing without Biafra? Life will be meaningless, useless to me.
You spoke about the wall of the country falling if you are re-arrested. Since IPOB is non violent, how are you going to achieve this?
Apartheid collapsed in South Africa, segregation collapsed in the USA, Martin Luther King had no weapons, the same thing is happening. There is a superior force fighting for us in heaven, Chukuokike Abiama, the Almighty God in heaven is fighting. This is His battle, it is not Nnamdi Kanu or IPOB’s battle. God is fighting His battle for us. Have you ever heard of earthquake in Nigeria? It happened in 2016 in the North when I was arrested; have you heard of locusts swarming everywhere and damaging crops before? These are plagues of biblical proportion and it is just a warning, a tester of what is to come. What I represent is greater than who I am and the God that we worship, Chukuokike Abiama is about to make manifest that the whole world may know that Biafra is very special, exceptionally special and there is nothing any man can do, absolutelynothing.
You said God gave you a message for the Igbo, can you share the message with us?
That Biafra is coming and that we must remain very strong and resolute. The only thing He requires of us is to worship Him, that’s all He wants us to do and not to worship idol and Biafra will come and the world will see and will testify it. The Igbo should turn away from idolatry and face God and Him alone, that’s the message he said I should give my people. Whatis delaying Biafra is that the people have not turned away totally from worshipping idols. I will be going to Arochuwku to build a temple there and we’ll worship God how it used to be. There was a time God loved us, we used to obey Him by going to Arochukwu to offer Him sacrifice. We started suffering as soon as Arochukwu failed, because the people dabbled into idolatry.
You said you would visit Lagos and Kaduna in no distant time. Don’t you feel for your security?
I have a lot of friends in Lagos and Southern Kaduna too. When the time comes, I will visit those places. You spoke about my security, but I’m telling you that I’m not living any more.What you are seeing is but an empty shell that is only seeking for Biafra.
You keep saying that all you think about is Biafra, but MASSOB founder, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike once said that you do n’t know anything about Biafra. What’s your reaction?
Isn’t it very sad that the only way he could attract attention to his publication was by mentioning the name Nnamdi Kanu? That’s how low he has sunk. Had he not mentioned Nnamdi Kanu, nobody would have bought any newspaper having such an interview; it’s a shame, isn’t it? How the mighty has fallen. If Uwazuruike had not mentioned Nnamdi Kanu, nobody would have read anything he was writing. That’s my answer.
Uwazuruike went further in the interview to say that I’m calling for the boycott of Anambra election to help APC win the election. But I want to tell him at various times I have been accused of supporting virtually every political party in the country and every major player. But the thing of joy for IPOB is that we have the benefit of longevity and time; there is no lie that time will not reveal. Now, it is clearly demonstrated beyond every reasonable doubt that when former President Goodluck was in office, I went hard after him. It was said that I was being sponsored by APC. APC came in, I went after Buhari, but Jonathan was very sensible not minding where we have disagreement, he was very sensible, he ignored me. He knew that as a democrat, as a Biafran at heart that how you kind of moderate views and emotions within a society is to ventilate them and allow people to say what they want; that the reason we have the National Assembly is not to make laws only. You create room for people with diverse views and opinions and ideas. It’s better they are ttalking than fighting, that’s why you have parliament, people don’t know that.
I heard that he equally said that if I need money that I should come to him, but what Uwazuruike has refused to know is that I am not a money monger like him; we are not the same. All he thinks about is money, but I think about Biafra and that’s the huge difference. He has been abandoned by his slave masters, the Hausa/Fulani he has been serving so diligently for many years. The wool has fallen off the eyes of our people; everyone knows he is a fraud. What am I doing with money? If I were looking for money, I would have settled with the Buhari government. I don’t need money, the only thing I need is Biafra, Uwazuruike cannot do what I did, he can never do nothing in a billion years. Now, I’m very glad that he has seen that all the money he made,is worthless because he has lost his reputation, he has no name to fall back to. People give me stuff, the cars I use, people gave them to me. I don’t buy anything, so, what do I need money for? I don’t need to buy anything, the furniture in my house, people built them for me. I am serving my people everyday and today we have honour and prestige because of IPOB. It’s notonly our people, every other component ethnic nationality, is rising up to speak because of IPOB. If I had compromised, do you think they would have the courage to rise up? It’s called honour and integrity and Uwazuruike has got none.
FULL NAMES OF NNPC NEW APPOINTMENTS IN GEO POLITICAL ZONES.
SS=2, SW=3, North=10, SE=0.
North.
1] Malami Shehu, – MD Port Harcourt Refining Company.
2] Muhammed Abah, – MD Warri Refinery.
3] Umar Ajiya, – MD of NPMC.
4] Bala Wunti, – GGM CP&S.
5] Usman Yusuf, – GMD STA. (Tech).
6] Ahmadu-Katagum – GGM Shipping (Downstream).
7] Kallamu Abdullahi – GGM Renewable Energy Division.
8] Shaibu Musa – MD NNPC Medical Services Limited.
9] Ibrahim Birma – GGM Governance, Risk & Compliance Division.
10] Farouk Ahmed – MD Product Mkg – Retiring.
South West.
1] Adewale Ladenegan, – MD Kaduna Refinery
2] Adeyemi Adetunji, – MD NNPC Retail.
3] Bola Afolabi, – GGM Research & Development.
South South
1] Roland Ewubare – Group General Manager
2] Diepriye Tariah – MD of IDSL.
South East.
No one is deemed to fit their criteria to be appointed in any of the Positions not minding that they are more qualified in terms of number of degrees, experiences and length of services.
WHO IS BRUCE FEIN? – BRUCE IS AN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER WHO HAS DRAWN A BLUEPRINT FOR BIAFRA RESTORATION
Bruce Fein was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the epicenter of the American Revolution– on March 12, 1947. William Henry Longfellow’s Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Concord Hymn have been two of Mr. Fein’s moral, philosophical, and intellectual inspirations.
Mr. Fein delivered valedictorian addresses at his junior and senior high school graduation ceremonies. He attended Swarthmore College (1965-67), and the University of California at Berkeley (1967-1969), and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in political science. He attended Harvard Law School (1969-1972) where he began a series of annual reviews of the United States Supreme Court for the American Enterprise Institute, where he also served as an adjunct scholar.
After graduating with honors, Mr. Fein clerked for United States District Judge Frank A. Kaufman. Sitting by designation on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Mr. Fein helped Judge Kaufman to author the first decision in more than a century holding the President of the United States subject to suit in National Treasury Workers Union v. Nixon.
Mr. Fein then served as special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. Among other accomplishments, Mr. Fein drafted an authoritative monograph on impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors as the House Judiciary Committee commenced an impeachment investigation of President Richard M. Nixon.
Mr. Fein also served as assistant director for the Office of Policy and Planning, special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, and Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan. In the latter position, Mr. Fein inaugurated a robust process to vet potential federal judicial nominees for interpretive philosophies consistent with the federal judicial role envisioned by the Constitution’s architects.
Mr. Fein was next appointed general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Mark Fowler at the time of Judge Harold Greene’s divestiture decree for AT&T. Mr. Fein spearheaded the Commission’s repeal of the schoolmarm-like “Fairness Doctrine,” which gave birth to talk radio.
Mr. Fein was appointed Research Director for the House Republicans on the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran, and served as Visiting Fellow for Constitutional Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
In 1987, Mr. Fein began the private practice of law and commenced more than two decades of weekly law and foreign policy columns for The Washington Times. He assisted then Congressman Bob Barr (R. Ga.) in drafting articles of impeachment against President William Jefferson Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Mr. Fein then served on the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and represented Edward Snowden’s father over the Orwellian surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA). He also drafted the complaint for Senator Rand Paul’s class action suit against President Obama, challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s telephony metadata collection program under section 215 of the Patriot Act.
Mr. Fein has testified before congressional committees on scores of occasions at the invitation of both Democrats and Republicans. He regularly delivers lectures to visiting jurists from foreign countries under the auspices of the State Department. His most recent books are Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire Before The Fall. Mr. Fein appears regularly on national and international television and radio and in the print media.
Mr. Fein is eternally grateful that he ceased growing taller at 5 feet, 9 inches. That diminutive height wrote the epitaph to his adolescent ambition to play guard for the Boston Celtics with the likes of Bill Russell and Sam Jones. He is astonished that a man of his intelligence ever could have been guilty of such foolishness.
Mr. Fein dedicated his book American Empire Before The Fall to Socrates, who preferred death to an unexamined life. A pivotal guidepost in his life is the moral superiority of risking being the victim of injustice over risking complicity in injustice.
According to Mr. Fein, the purpose of government is to promote justice, i.e., the convergence of law and moral philosophy.
Mr. Fein does not watch television. He does not watch movies or sports. His leisure hours are devoted to reading Plutarch’s Lives and studying the architecture of power to thwart oppression, persecution, violence, and war. The search for truth without ulterior motives is his summum bonum.
Mr. Fein maintains that due process is the most important concept in the history of civilization—the first recognition by man that “I could be wrong,” an acknowledgement that there are no facts, only interpretations, and an understanding that notice and a hearing are indispensable to human dignity.
At age 67, Mr. Fein is amazed that he survived the monumental stupidities of youth. He is constantly alert to Abraham Lincoln’s adage that a man who does not grow wiser by the day is a fool.
EXPERIENCE
Mr. Fein’s diversity of experience and scholarship enable a unique multi-dimensional appraisal of client problems. In devising optimal solutions, Mr. Fein brings to bear judicial, legislative, executive, media, think tank, university, and international perspectives or opportunities.
His clerkship with a federal judge provided special insight into judicial thinking.
His service as associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan provided insight into federal law enforcement regarding criminal prosecutions, civil litigation, the environment, lands and natural resources, antitrust, immigration, the office of professional ethics, the office of legal counsel, the office of the Solicitor General, and United States Attorneys.
His service as general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission where he spearheaded repeal of the “Fairness Doctrine,” which fathered talk radio, provided special understanding of the legal landscape for the telecommunications, cable, satellite, and broadcasting industries.
Mr. Fein service as Research Director on the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran and professional associations with numerous members of Congress provided insights into the legislative process, the influence of partisanship in Congress, congressional oversight, and the intelligence community.
Mr. Fein’s service as an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Visiting Fellow for Constitutional Studies at the Heritage Foundation, and guest lecturer at the Brookings Institution provided knowledge of think tank operations and their methods of influence on public policy.
Writing as a weekly columnist for more than two decades for The Washington Times offered Mr. Fein knowledge of symbiotic interactions between the press and government and the strategies employed by each to advance their interests.
Serving as an adjunct professor at George Washington University, frequently lecturing at universities, and establishing professional relations with a galaxy of university professors provided Mr. Fein an understanding of the influence of scholarship on public attitudes and public policy.
Mr. Fein’s panoramic experience and scholarship in the law enables him to discern narratives and connections among various areas of practice that would be missed by others less schooled.
With Bruce Fein in the saddle of Biafra case, It is good bye to Nigeria with the former East!!
Is this true? If so, he must be extremely careful with those so called governors and politicians. They are all one Nigeria advocates. None of them can be trusted when it comes to Biafra. WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ANYTHING NIGERIA, BUT BIAFRA.
It is obvious that Nnamdi Kanu is under tremendous pressure from the undemocratic, and despotic government of Mr. Buhari. If he is still the person that I used to know, I do not have any doubt that he will maintain his ground. BIAFRA IS NON NEGOTIABLE. Bruce Fein and his partner have just returned from Enugu. He has given us a blueprint for Biafra.
The threat to re-arrest him, is just wishful thinking by Mr. Buhari and his incompetent government. Any attempt to rearrest him will be the beginning of the end for the Islamic Republic of Nigeria. Right now the UN has made it clear last week that the so called Arewa youths should be arrested for threatening the Igbos living in the northern part of Nigeria, despite their so called temporary withdrawal of such threat.
I am ashamed of the so called governors in both regions of Biafra. They are blinded by the pitiful allocation they are getting from Abuja. Ekiti state governor,Ayodele Fayose and Femi-Fani Kayode, two Yoruba men criticize the genocidal government of Buhari for massacring Igbos/Biafran. Unfortunately, the cowards calling themselves governors and politicians in Igboland/Biafra keep mute. This is one other reason Nnamdi Kanu must be careful dealing with any of them. Be yourself Nnamdi, nobody is going to rearrest you.
There are many organizations, groups and individuals fighting to restore Biafra. If any group or individual decides to cave in to pressure and quit, Biafra will still be restored. No person on the surface of this earth can stop the restoration of Biafra.
I would suggest that Nnamdi Kanu, through his lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor contact Bruce Fein, to understand what we are doing.
This is just a suggestion, he does not have to do so, if he is not interested. All we want is Biafra, it does not matter how it comes, or who leads the way. Bruce Fein has traveled this route before, and knows how to navigate the rough terrain.
We should all keep our egos on hold, and go for the gold and that is Biafra. May God continue to bless Biafra and those fighting for her freedom.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Wednesday, urged Igbo leaders as well as South East Governors to prevail on their kinsmen agitating for Biafran Republic to refrain from it.
The ACF also urged all Nigerians to, in the spirit of Sallah celebration, avoid hate speeches and acts that were capable of jeopardiding the peaceful co-existence of people of the country.
This was contained in a Sallah message issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the Forum, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu.
ACF said both Igbo leaders and south east governors should emulate their northern counterparts in ensuring that the call for separation of Nigeria by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was put a stop to.
The Forum noted that it was northern leaders that prevailed on Arewa youths to withdraw the quit notice earlier served Biafra agitators.
The message read: “In this regard, ACF particularly calls upon our respected Governors of the South Eastern States and Ndigbo leaders to emulate their Northern counterparts and prevail on the IPOB agitators to respect the sovereignty of Nigeria.
“We cannot allow our temporary challenges to redefine our collective destiny and set our agenda.
“We all have grievances, but they can best be addressed through dialogue and negotiation, not by violent agitations, threats and intimidation to lives and property.
“ACF also wish to appeal to our leaders at all levels of Government to be God’s fearing, just, sincere and responsible in discharging their duties, and also exhibit decorum and civility in words and deeds.
“We particularly appeal to our youths as leaders of tomorrow, to avail themselves to government empowerment facilities and engage in lawful productive ventures that will add value to themselves and the community, rather than be vanguard of destruction that comes with frustrations.
“We should make the most of our God-given diversity by working hard to overcome our challenges.
“Nigeria is in a trying period with so many challenges, economic, security, corruption and unemployment among others, hence the need to fervently pray for peace, stability, prosperity and avoid any act that will not be helpful.
“However, ACF have observed with concern the open disagreement among agencies of government over simple administrative issues that are capable of affecting unity of purpose with clear thought and morality. Nigeria cannot afford avoidable divided presidency, as it is not helpful to our democracy and development.
“ACF therefore appeals to the agencies concerned to guide against actions that can be sand bags on the path of efforts to deliver on the promise of democracy.
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s latest comment that he was pleased with Nigeria’s economic situation as another pointer to the fact that the President has lost touch with the economic realities in the country.
Fayose said, “It is strange that a President will say that he is pleased with sufferings being experienced by his people.”
In a statement issued, on Thursday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it was obvious that President Buhari’s close to three months stay in London had taken his mind off the reality of the economic crises being witnessed in the country.
Governor Fayose, who said economic growth of a nation can only be measured by the welfare of the people, asked; “How can a President who has spent more time abroad than he spent in Nigeria be telling Nigerians that he is satisfied with the sufferings of the people? It is like the President endorsing the sufferings of Nigerians and this is painful,” he said.
“That President Buhari, who met exchange rate at N197 to $1 said that he is pleased with the economy when exchange rate is now N370 to $1 is a clear indication that the government is being ran on his behalf.”
“The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its unemployment report for the fourth quarter (Q4) 2016 said 3.67 million Nigerians became jobless in one year and that the number of unemployed Nigerians rose from 7.51 million at the beginning of October 2015 to 11.19 million at the end of September 2016.
“The same NBS, said in its June 2015 to May 2016 National Corruption Report, that over N400 billion was paid as bribes to public officials in Nigeria in one year (June 2015 – May 2016). Yet, they will tell Nigerians that they are fighting corruption when indeed, corruption is thriving under the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Buhari.
“As at May 29, 2015 that Buhari became President, bag of rice was less than N8,000, a bag of rice is about N18,000 now, more than 25 states cannot pay workers salary regularly owing to dwindled revenue from the federation account, and someone is telling Nigerians that the economy is doing well? It is clear that the President has lost touch with real economic situation of the country,” Governor Fayose said further.
While insisting that the President was not telling Nigerians the truth on the economic situation of the country, Governor Fayose said, “Even a two year old child knows that there is hunger in the land, Nigerians are hungry, they are suffering and telling them that all is well is like adding salt to their injury.”
Is this true? If so, he must be extremely careful with those so called governors and politicians. They are all one Nigeria advocates. None of them can be trusted when it comes to Biafra. WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ANYTHING NIGERIA, BUT BIAFRA.